| 1H6 I.ii.27 | [Reignier to all, of the English lords] like lions wanting food, / Do rush upon us as their hungry prey |
| 1H6 III.ii.41 | [Pucelle to the English] Good morrow, gallants, want ye corn for bread? |
| 2H6 III.i.236 | [Cardinal to all, of Gloucester] we want a colour for his death |
| CE III.i.77 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Dromio of Ephesus] It seems thou wantest breaking |
| CE IV.i.4 | [Second Merchant to Angelo] I am bound / To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage |
| H5 V.ii.50 | [Burgundy to all] The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, / Wanting the scythe |
| H8 V.iii.161 | [King Henry to Cranmer, of the baby] a fair young maid that yet wants baptism |
| KL IV.i.18 | [blind Gloucester to Old Man] I have no way and therefore want no eyes |
| LLL V.ii.866 | [King to Berowne, of their waiting time] it wants a twelvemonth and a day |
| Mac III.iv.142 | [Macbeth to Lady Macbeth] My strange and self-abuse / Is the initiate fear that wants hard use |
| MM IV.ii.143 | [disguised Duke to Provost, of Barnardine] He wants advice |
| MM IV.iii.103.1 | [disguised Duke to Provost] I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours |
| MND I.ii.98 | [Quince to all] I will draw a bill of properties such as our play wants |
| Per I.iv.11 | [Cleon to Dionyza] Who wanteth food and will not say he wants it [second instance] |
| Per II.iii.100 | [Simonides to Pericles, of Thaisa] here's a lady that wants breathing too |
| R3 II.i.43 | [King Edward to all] There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here |
| R3 III.iv.5 | [Derby to Buckingham, of the coronation date] It ... wants but nomination |
| Sonn.24.13 | [] eyes this cunning want to grace their art |
| TG I.iii.74 | [Antonio to Proteus] Look what thou wantest shall be sent after thee |
| Tim IV.iii.68 | [Timon to Alcibiades, of how he came by his changed state] As the moon does, by wanting light to give |
| TNK II.iv.56 | [Emilia to disguised Arcite] what / You want at any time, let me but know it |
| WT I.ii.128 | [Leontes to Mamillius] Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have / To be full like me |
| WT III.ii.54 | [Leontes to Hermione] I ne'er heard yet / That any of these bolder vices wanted / less impudence to gainsay what they did / Than to perform it first |